Sometimes is just rains and rains and rains. The ground saturates. The rain can't seep into it. It runs off. The rivers fill up. Upstream waters roll downstream. The banks overflow. The rivers can be pretty, but the results are hard on your furniture. These shots were taken along the Papaloapan River between Ciudad Aleman and Cosamaloapan.


Houses all along the river flooded.


It makes both basketball and soccer tough to play on the schoolgrounds.


And sometimes, the only way you can do your home teaching is by boat. Of course that is what they are doing! These picures were taken on August 31, 2010 after 7 p.m.